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In April 2022, 7.7 percent of employed people teleworked or worked at home for pay because of the COVID-19 pandemic, down 2.3 percentage points from March 2022. In May 2020, when the data were first collected, 35.4 percent of employed people teleworked because of the pandemic and has since trended down.
Month | Total | Men | Women | White | Black or African American | Asian | Hispanic or Latino |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 2020 |
35.4% | 30.8% | 40.9% | 35.3% | 29.3% | 51.9% | 23.0% |
Jun 2020 |
31.3 | 27.2 | 36.0 | 30.8 | 25.7 | 48.5 | 21.1 |
Jul 2020 |
26.4 | 23.9 | 29.3 | 25.7 | 22.7 | 43.8 | 18.6 |
Aug 2020 |
24.3 | 21.9 | 27.1 | 23.4 | 20.9 | 42.7 | 15.9 |
Sep 2020 |
22.7 | 19.9 | 25.8 | 21.9 | 19.6 | 39.5 | 14.3 |
Oct 2020 |
21.2 | 18.8 | 24.0 | 20.7 | 17.8 | 35.1 | 12.7 |
Nov 2020 |
21.8 | 19.3 | 24.5 | 21.5 | 17.9 | 34.6 | 13.1 |
Dec 2020 |
23.7 | 21.2 | 26.6 | 23.2 | 19.3 | 39.3 | 14.3 |
Jan 2021 |
23.2 | 20.8 | 26.0 | 22.8 | 18.8 | 36.9 | 13.8 |
Feb 2021 |
22.7 | 20.5 | 25.1 | 21.9 | 19.5 | 37.8 | 13.4 |
Mar 2021 |
21.0 | 19.1 | 23.0 | 20.2 | 18.0 | 36.1 | 12.9 |
Apr 2021 |
18.3 | 16.7 | 20.1 | 17.7 | 14.9 | 33.3 | 10.8 |
May 2021 |
16.6 | 15.2 | 18.2 | 15.8 | 13.6 | 32.3 | 9.4 |
Jun 2021 |
14.4 | 13.3 | 15.7 | 13.6 | 12.3 | 29.6 | 8.6 |
Jul 2021 |
13.2 | 12.3 | 14.2 | 12.3 | 10.8 | 30.1 | 8.0 |
Aug 2021 |
13.4 | 12.4 | 14.6 | 12.4 | 11.2 | 30.4 | 7.9 |
Sep 2021 |
13.2 | 12.3 | 14.2 | 12.3 | 10.9 | 28.2 | 7.9 |
Oct 2021 |
11.6 | 10.7 | 12.7 | 10.8 | 9.9 | 25.1 | 6.2 |
Nov 2021 |
11.3 | 10.5 | 12.1 | 10.4 | 9.7 | 23.7 | 6.2 |
Dec 2021 |
11.1 | 10.5 | 11.9 | 10.4 | 9.5 | 23.5 | 6.0 |
Jan 2022 |
15.4 | 14.3 | 16.6 | 14.9 | 12.3 | 26.9 | 9.3 |
Feb 2022 |
13.0 | 12.1 | 14.0 | 12.3 | 11.1 | 25.4 | 7.7 |
Mar 2022 |
10.0 | 9.4 | 10.7 | 9.4 | 8.4 | 21.1 | 6.3 |
Apr 2022 |
7.7 | 7.1 | 8.4 | 7.0 | 6.4 | 18.5 | 3.9 |
In April 2022, 8.4 percent of employed women teleworked because of the pandemic, compared with 7.1 percent of men. The proportion of women who have teleworked because of the pandemic has been greater than their male counterparts in every month since May 2020.
In April 2022, 18.5 percent of Asians teleworked because of the pandemic, compared with 7.0 percent of Whites, 6.4 percent of Blacks or African Americans, and 3.9 percent of Hispanics or Latinos.
These data are from the Current Population Survey and are not seasonally adjusted. To learn more, see "The Employment Situation — April 2022" and Supplemental data measuring the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the labor market. We also have more charts on employment and unemployment. These data refer to employed people who teleworked or worked at home for pay at some point in the past 4 weeks specifically because of the COVID–19 pandemic. This does not include those whose telework was unrelated to the pandemic, such as employed people who worked entirely from home before the pandemic. People whose ethnicity is Hispanic or Latino may be of any race.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, 7.7 percent of workers teleworked due to COVID-19 in April 2022 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2022/7-7-percent-of-workers-teleworked-due-to-covid-19-in-april-2022.htm (visited December 05, 2024).